Philip Shao
Substitute Teacher at NYC Public Schools
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Shao is a software engineer with a decade of experience building and operating core infrastructure for finance and cloud platforms, from SQL Server internals at Microsoft to deployment and SDLC systems at Two Sigma, Citadel, and PDT. He blends back-end and platform engineering expertise—managed Kubernetes, Kafka, job orchestration, and build/test/deploy pipelines—with hands-on product work and technical leadership at Addepar. Based in New York, he has also applied his technical problem-solving to nonprofit CRM and Salesforce operations and unusually, taken a multi-year detour as a professional gardener and current substitute teacher, reflecting a practical, people-oriented approach to complex systems. Comfortable across both low-level database and large-scale distributed system concerns, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability, automation, and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Economics, BS, Computer Science and Economics at Yale University
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (62)
javascript10
react-native10
multiplayer10
game-engine10
ember-addon10
build-system10
networking10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
extensible10
state-management10
pooling10
scalable10
tabletop10
react10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shaoster/unmuted2021
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Deckbuilder game about the experience of poverty
Contributions:4 reviews, 157 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
optimizationsreactgamepovertydeckbuilder
shaoster/uncovered
Jun 2020 - Jun 2021
boardgame.io implementation of a game called "Uncovered!"
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year
gamemahjongraycastinggame-theoryboardgame
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